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Welcome to “Pressing Questions,” Fast Company’s mini advice column. Twice a week, deputy editor Kathleen Davis, host of The New Way We Work podcast, will answer the biggest and most pressing workplace questions in less than one min…
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For Rigel Robinson, serving on the Berkeley City Council in California was “incredible.” In a district that he calls the “epicenter” of the city’s housing crisis, he’d been able to lock in zoning reforms and ge…




